Robin Cameron’s ceramics incorporate fragmented shapes in an idiosyncratic assemblage of colorful forms. To create these ceramic sculptures the artist first gathers broken shards of failed pottery discarded by others. She uses new porcelain to combine the castoff shards thereby creating ad hoc new forms that conjure up injured or isolated parts of the body.
Each angle of these works, mounted to steel rods and displayed on their pine bases, reveals alternative anatomies: a mask seems to have a jaw or an eye, a hand manifests its palm or articulated digits, a foot finds its sole and accompanying toes. From hip to head, from foot to finger, these new works explore the human figure as fragmented, each facet conjoined to the next in careful juxtaposition. Cameron is fascinated with the concept of productive failure, a territory of proposed conflict in which something—an object or an idea—that in itself is a lost cause, can find new significance. They are what they are not supposed to be: fragments that are re-fired; failures that find new form.
Une Seconde Vie opens on October 23 at Galerie Lefebvre & Fils in Paris, France.
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